Bio/Description

Independent Senior Software Engineer, artist, enthusiast photographer, pinball enthusiast. I help to run a few meetups in the Boston area. Call me KAdam 🙂

Interests

Art, Electronic Music, DJing, Web Design, Web Development, Animation

WordPress Origin Story

A friend pulled up their blog on a laptop in one of the campus dining halls in the fall of 2006 or so—it looked nice, so I asked what they used for it, and they said WordPress. I installed it on our dorm server later that month, and started making sites with it after college.

Wrote a comment on the post JavaScript chat summary for Sept. 26th, on the site Make WordPress Core:While it doesn't help, per se, there's nothing stopping this from happening more generally even…

Posted a reply to call wordpress rest api using multiple tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:The "correct" way to do this with the REST API is to get the IDs…

2 months ago

Posted a reply to REST API documentation problem – Modifying responses – custom fields, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Thanks very much for coming in to the #docs channel to raise this issue. I've…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to If REST API is disabled form can’t be sent, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Disabling the REST API entirely is not recommended because it will break future features of…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to Get list of Media from specific category in Rest-Api, on the site WordPress.org Forums:filter is not supported by the core REST API; it can be added in by…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to Menu Items in Rest Api, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hello! Both of these plugins look like they provide a good solution, and at least…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to wordpress_logged_in cookie and REST API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Basic Authentication is designed to operate separately from Cookie Authentication; if you are authenticating with…

Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal Discussion: REST API Content Endpoints, on the site Make WordPress Core:I don't think we've noted yet that the endpoints here don't just encompass the built-in…

Wrote a comment on the post REST API Merge Proposal, Part 2: Content API, on the site Make WordPress Core:We have just this moment published our team update for the week, doing just that:…

1 year ago

Wrote a new post, REST API Team Update, 4.7 Week 8, on the site Make WordPress Core:Summary: Beta 15 has been released, there are open questions that would benefit from your…

1 year ago

Wrote a comment on the post REST API Merge Proposal, Part 2: Content API, on the site Make WordPress Core:@matt, thanks for the comment. Can you clarify whether with (1) you mean the authentication…

1 year ago

Wrote a comment on the post REST API Merge Proposal, Part 2: Content API, on the site Make WordPress Core:I think it would, @aaroncampbell; we're discussing that question as a team in a few…

1 year ago

Wrote a comment on the post REST API Team Update (4.7 week 7), on the site Make WordPress Core:For every API-registered taxonomy, such as categories, two query parameters are added: a `?categories[]=` parameter…

1 year ago

Wrote a comment on the post REST API Team Update (4.7 week 7), on the site Make WordPress Core:@westonruter There was indeed discussion around this; "setting" is definitely overloaded, but since the resources…

1 year ago

Wrote a new post, API Team Update (4.7 week 7), on the site Make WordPress Core:Our two (pt1) part (pt2) (split due to team travel) weekly meeting is now complete,…